juryman
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jurymen
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noun
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See -man.
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Henry Hazlitt was the only juryman to name Joyce's Ulysses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Franchot Tone got a baleful malevolence into his part as a juryman determined on hanging the defendant, while Robert Cummings was bland and believable as the juror who changes everyone's mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because the grandfather does not trade actively, the grandson was accepted as No. 2 juryman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Any book, therefore, which so effectively as Mr. Wellman's awakens a citizen to his duties as a juryman, is important and destined to remain important.
From Time Magazine Archive
The juryman smiled as they parted, and old Matt hurried off talking to himself; for the girl had disappeared while he had been detained.
From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn
Another case, he said, involved the time-honored stratagem of getting the right jury and a twist on a line from the English poet Alexander Pope, “Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2019
In “The Rape of the Lock,” first published in 1712, Alexander Pope wrote this chilling couplet: The hungry judges soon the sentence sign And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 6, 2012
"And wretches hang," wrote Alexander Pope, "that jurymen may dine."
From Time Magazine Archive
The prosecution's evidence was not the kind to convince the jurymen that Samuel Insull and friends were financial charlatans.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we only had to hear what witnesses say, jurymen would need nothing but ears.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
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